Sheltering Rain - Hardcover

Moyes, Jojo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060012889 ISBN 13: 9780060012885

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2002

Synopsis

A family drama set in the Irish countryside focuses on three generations of women who are reunited after decades of separation and estrangement. A first novel.

About this title

Review:

Heartfelt and absorbing (Christina Fotinelli, television producer, aged 27)

A lovely book to sink into after a day of children and wiping (Kathy Williams, teacher and mum, aged 37)

Wonderfully captivating (Jane Farrow, school secretary, age 49)

Evocative (Mrs S Robinson, nurse, aged 52)

An excellent read (Mrs Ada Isaaman, housewife, aged 84)

The attitudes of these strong-minded women and their generations are masterfully captured (Hello)

Meaty saga (Woman, London)

This is a remarkable first novel, rich and deep and full of wonderfully realized characters. Oh, these women! (Anne Rivers Siddons)

Be sure that your bookmark is a hankie (Elle, London)

From the Author:

This book was loosely inspired by the love affair between my Australian grandmother and Scottish grandfather, who met when he, as a young naval officer, was invited to an Australian young ladies "reception" during the Second World War. They fell in love, and within a week he had asked her to marry him. She then didn't see him for a year, but still had the faith to make a six weeks voyage on a troop ship to marry a man she didn't know. I realised that noone would have the faith to do that now, (unless they ended up on the Trisha show) and it got me thinking about how our expectations have changed, and how women's increased freedoms have not necessarily always worked out for the better.
The book itself weaves two love stories through fifty years, and three generations of a family at war with itself. It is a combination of things; a saga, with comedy and tragedy, an epic love story, and a mystery. I wanted to give value for money!
I have been astonished by the reception to the book, and to the fact that that a book about such a specific set of characters has been sold now in ten countries. Those who have read it seem to recognise themselves in someone in it - not always those characters I would have expected.
I hope those who read it will be taken somewhere they hadn't expected to go, that they will be swept up, entertained and moved.
All I ever really wanted was to write a good story, the kind that, like a good film, stays with you for a little while after you've finished it. I hope, if you read this book, it will at least do that for you.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060012889
• ISBN 13: 9780060012885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358